Vet Tech
Salary
$44,491.20 - $71,198.40 Annually
Location
Animal Serivices, 215 Stone Quarry Rd, Haw River, NC 27258, NC
Job Type
Full-time
Job Number
2026-00198
Department
Animal Services
Opening Date
11/04/2026
Closing Date
11/21/2026 11:59 PM Eastern
Job Description
Make a difference for pets and people while growing your veterinary skills!
Join us and put your veterinary skills to work making a difference every day!
Burlington Animal Services (BAS) is seeking a compassionate, skilled, and motivated Veterinary Technician to join our team at the Burlington Pet Adoption & Resource Center (PARC). This is an exciting opportunity to provide hands-on veterinary care, expand your clinical and surgical experience, and make a meaningful impact on animal welfare in our community.
BAS provides a variety of veterinary services in a progressive animal welfare environment, including shelter medicine, high-volume spay/neuter surgery, diagnostics, and preventive care. Our team cares for more than 6,000 pets annually and has maintained a lifesaving rate of 90% or greater since 2018.
About Burlington Animal Services
BAS is a department of the City of Burlington serving pets and people throughout Alamance County. Through compassionate veterinary care, sheltering, adoption, spay/neuter services, lost pet reunification, and community partnerships, we work toward our vision: A community where pets and people thrive together.
Learn more at burlingtonnc.gov/pets.
Why Join Our Team?
- Meaningful work supporting pet health, lifesaving care, and community well-being.
- Diverse clinical experience in surgery, diagnostics, and preventive medicine.
- Opportunities to develop technical and clinical skills.
- Regular daytime schedule with no rotational on-call or after-hours emergency responsibilities.
- City employment benefits, including health and dental insurance, paid leave, retirement benefits, and additional employee benefits.
- Full-time, 40 hours per week.
- Weekday shifts typically scheduled between 7:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.; occasional Saturdays may be required.
Examples of Duties
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor patient health and communicate medical concerns to veterinarians.
- Assist with examinations, diagnostic testing, treatment plans, and medical case management.
- Administer medications, vaccinations, and treatments under veterinary direction.
- Support spay/neuter surgeries, including patient preparation, anesthesia monitoring, intubation, surgical assistance, and post-operative recovery, as authorized by law.
- Perform or assist with laboratory testing, catheter placement, fluid therapy, dental care, digital radiography, ultrasound, and other procedures.
- Maintain accurate electronic medical records, medication logs, and controlled substance documentation.
- Maintain medical and surgical equipment, inventory, supplies, and sanitary work areas.
- Provide humane animal handling, Fear Free care, and compassionate euthanasia when appropriate and authorized.
- Educate adopters and foster caregivers on medications, treatments, and follow-up care.
- Follow applicable laws, safety standards, infection control procedures, and veterinary protocols.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Associate's degree, current enrollment in or completion of a veterinary medical technology program, and one year of directly related work experience.
- Valid drivers license.
- An equivalent combination of education and work experience will be considered.
Required Certifications
- North Carolina Euthanasia Technician Certification (EBI) in good standing, or ability to obtain within six months of employment.
- Fear Free Certification, or ability to obtain within six months of employment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Current Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT) registration with the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Board.
- Experience in shelter medicine, high-volume spay/neuter surgery, or a veterinary clinical setting.
RVT registration and shelter medicine experience are preferred, not required. Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications and are eager to grow their veterinary skills are encouraged to apply.
Supplemental Information
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
- Handle pets that are sick or injured, frightened, dangerous, and who may display unpredictable behavior.
- Individual must be able to lift up to 75 lbs.
- Stand, sit, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl to perform procedures and handle pets.
- Must be able to lift, carry, and restrain pets and operate vehicles and equipment.
- Work requires exposure to potentially hazardous conditions such as aggressive animals, potential exposure to radiation and anesthetic gasses, hazardous chemicals, drugs, and zoonotic diseases.
- Work in this position is primarily performed indoors.
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Inclement Weather Classification: Non-Essential
This job description in no way implies that the duties listed are the only ones the employee may be required to perform. The employee is expected to perform other tasks, duties, and training as requested by their supervisors.
Benefits for full-time employees of the City of Burlington (with the exception of full-time sworn police officers) are as follows:
- Paid vacation and sick leave
- Ability to transfer North Carolina local government earned sick leave.
- Paid holidays for New Years Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Good Friday, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas
- Enrollment in the Local Government branch of the North Carolina State Retirement System
- Enrollment in Empower 401k
- Health and dental insurance coverage for employee and children; spouses may be added to the policy if they are not offered coverage at their own place of employment
- Voluntary enrollment in a Flexible Spending Plan
- Life insurance
- Long-term care insurance
- Other voluntary insurances and deferred compensation plans
Employer City of Burlington NC
Address PO Box 1358
Burlington, North Carolina, 27216-1358
Phone 336-222-5105
Website http://www.burlingtonnc.gov